U.S. President Donald Trump rallied supporters in Iowa on Tuesday as he worked to shore up support in a Midwestern political battleground just south of Minnesota, where a confrontation ​was escalating over federal immigration agents' aggressive tactics.

Hours after saying that he might “de-escalate” an aggressive ICE crackdown in Minnesota, Trump portrayed those arrested by federal agents there as “hardened, vicious, horrible criminals.”

Donald Trump said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would remain in her post despite the president’s decision to reshuffle the leadership running his deportation effort in Minnesota following widespread outcry over the killing of two US citizens by federal agents.

By Jarrett Renshaw Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by a federal agent during a confrontation in Minneapolis, should not have been carrying a gun or fully loaded magazines,

President Donald Trump defended HHS Sec Kristi Noem amid growing calls for her resignation following deadly federal immigration operations in Minnesota.

Experienced federal immigration agents in Minneapolis are privately raging about the killing of nurse Alex Pretti and want out of the mission they now see as “lost,” according to a new report. ICE and Border Patrol agents are said to have turned on the operation—and on their colleagues who blasted Pretti.

Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Horizon Events Center with demonstrations fueled largely by outrage over two killings in Minneapolis.

Amid the fallout over the fatal shooting by a federal agent of Alex Pretti, leaders appear poised to make a change.